"Her collars and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had pinned a purple spray of cloth violets containing a sachet. In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady" (O'Connor 3).

The grandmother didn't want to go to Flordia. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee. She was trying to get her son to take the family on vacation where she wanted to go. "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Flordiau read here what it says he did to these people> I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer my conscience if I did." She ends taking the family on a wild goose chase down a road to see a house that is actually in a different state. She doesn't want to tell her son that she made a mistake. In the end they are killed by the Misfit's gang We all make mistakes and should own up to them before something bad happens.

The grandmother didn't want to go to Flordia. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee. She was trying to get her son to take the family on vacation where she wanted to go. "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Flordiau read here what it says he did to these people> I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn't answer my conscience if I did." She ends taking the family on a wild goose chase down a road to see a house that is actually in a different state. She doesn't want to tell her son that she made a mistake. In the end they are killed by the Misfit's gang We all make mistakes and should own up to them before something bad happens. O'Connor P-1

"Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children! She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest. Then he put his gundown and on the ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them (O'Connor 22)"

"'You can’t win,' and he [Red Sammy, a diner owner] wiped his sweating red face off with gray handkerchief. 'Two fellers come in here last week,' Red Sammy said, 'driving a Chrysler. It was a old beat-up car but it was a good one and these boys looked all right to me. Said they worked at the mill and you know I let them fellers charge the gas they bought? Now why did I do that?' 'Because you're a good man!' the grandmother said at once. 'Yes'm, I suppose so," Red Sam said as if he were struck with this answer" (7-8).

....Pointed to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack. "wouldn't that make a picture, now?" she asked and they all turned and looked at the little Negro out of the back window. he waved. "he didnt have my britches on," june star said. "he probabley didn't have any," the grandmother explained. "little niggers in the country don't have things like we do. if i could paint, i'd paint that picture," she said. (O'Connor 12)

"When the children finished all the comic books they had brought, they opened the lunch and ate it. The grandmother ate a peanut butter sandwich and an olive and would not let the chlildren throw the box and the paper napkins out the window. When there was nothing else to do they played a game by choosing a cloud and making the other two guess what shape of a cow and June Star guessed a cow and John Wesley said no, an automobile, and June Star said he didn't play fair, and they began to slap each other over the grandmother." (O'Conner 5)